Rock Band VR will put you in the band with the Oculus Rift headset in 2016

The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is due for launch in the first quarter of 2016, and one of the games that is being made exclusively for the device is Rock Band VR. The game is based on Harmonix's long running music game franchise.

Rock Band VR was announced via a tongue-in-cheek trailer where Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and Harmonix team members got lessons on how to be a rock star from members of the metal band DragonForce. The end of the trailer showed a little bit of gameplay which would indicate that players will indeed feel like they are on stage. There's no word on when the game will be released.

Rock Band VR will put you in the band with the Oculus Rift headset in 2016

The nature of the game makes it hard to see this working. Why would you want to be even more distracted and disoriented by the background? Not too mention the social party element would be completely removed...

I don't see the point. Actually it makes even less sense to play with those wonky plastic guitars with a few buttons in a VR environment. Do yourself a favor and get Rocksmith 2014 and learn to play a real guitar. This is just wasting time playing pretend.

sure, but im not talking about ordinary videogames but VR rock band specifically. if you have the money and powerful pc to buy an expensive VR headset to play rock band, you definitely have the time and money to purchase a real instrument and learn it. Rocksmith bundle with the guitar is a more logical purchase than this, however, if you're willing to pay so much to pretend you're playing guitar alone, because you won't buy 4 oculus to play with your friends, then that's your problem. Fun or not, I don't think anyone I know, even whoever likes this game, would purchase this ****.

This is something only stupid people living in a first world country would purchase. I live in a third world country, and not even those who are aware of this product and could buy it would do it.